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 OH Don Chaffer smooths a song out with his reassuringly kind vocals. Pink & Blue is one of the those small records that normally gets rolled over by other less earnest work. Geeks like me take it upon themselves to go in search of a diamond in the dross. ...

By Glen Boyd You'll find Blogcritics contributing editor and music raconteur Glen Boyd sharing his Thoughtmares about everything from music to politics to professional wrestling on his personal blog The World Wide Glen: Welcome To My Thoughtmare. In his alter-ego as "Disco Glen," Mr. Boyd is also t...

By Triniman Waters sang less lead vocals when the band returned after an intermission to play The Darkside of the Moon in its entirety. Guitarist Dave Kilminster occasionally sang lead vocals as did keyboardist Jon Carin. Kilminster was very strong as one of the three lead guitarists, along with Snow...

By Donald Gibson During his storied tenure with Pink Floyd, Roger Waters authored some of rock’s most subversive and socially defiant songs. On May 19 at the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida, Waters drew primarily from that catalog to craft a sonic and visually stunning performance that took emphati...

By KateHarding When I heard that Lynn Harris -- a frequent contributor to Salon.com and formerly the advice columnist known as Break-Up Girl, whom I have adored in both guises for years -- had written a novel called Death By Chick Lit, I knew I had to get my hands on it immediately. Not only am I a huge fan of Harr...

By Connie Phillips It's a formula they stick pretty close to throughout the course of the album and the end result is a collection rock-hard tunes. The only deviations come in the form of harmonic ballads, the best examples of which open and close the album.

By Peter Chakerian All of which brings us to Fear of a Blank Planet, Wilson’s concept album nod to Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet and the novel Lunar Park by author Brett Easton Ellis. Many of the lyrics on Planet are homage to the latter-mentioned, with Wilson lamenting the loss identity, purpose and co...

By Richard Marcus What makes this Classic Albums disc so special is the fact that the film makers have sat down with both Levon Helm (the drummer and lead vocalist) and Robbie Robertson (guitar and primary songwriter) and allowed the two men to separately go through the songs and break them down track by tra...

By John Owen Like The Beatings, Scuba exist to invoke (and improve on) some of the most revered sounds of the past thirty years or so. But where The Beatings draw on The Pixies, Mission of Burma and Sonic Youth, Scuba are best described as - get this - shoegazer revivalists.

By Ray Ellis It's the sort of thing that gives rock critics a bad name. Albums like OK Computer stand as seminal works only because they add something to the subconscious vocabulary of pop culture. It came out at the right time, much the way Green Day's American Idiot or Pink Floyd's The Wall or any number...

By Simon Glickman Writing, producing, playing and singing every note, Mills salutes such major influences as late Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett; the tumbling, baroque exertions of The Who's middle period; David Bowie's glam-alien peak; Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson's teenage symphonies to God; a...

By Carlo Wolff Several tunes hearken back to early NIN, like "Head Like a Hole" from Pretty Hate Machine and "Happiness in Slavery," one of Reznor's darkest forays, from Broken. Certainly NIN's longest single album, Year Zero also evokes The Fragile, his flawed, unexpectedly romantic double disk of 1...

By Timothy Jarrett Christopher O'Riley is on a roll. Recently he has parlayed his successful public radio gig into a public television gig; he also has two Radiohead transcription albums and one Elliott Smith transcription album under his belt (see below for a full list of Blogcritics reviews of O'Riley's...

By Simon Barrett As with the other DVD’s in this series the album is analyzed track by track by music critics and people that were involved with the project. We are treated to some never before seen live and studio clips, this is a real delight for any Pink Floyd fan.

By Patrick The band has been open about their debt to 70s bands, like Pink Floyd and Queen, who pioneered the sort of over the top concept centered epics that this album joins. Right from the first song, the debt is evident. “The End” sounds just like “In the Flesh?,” the opener of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, an...

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